Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 18 October 2019
Legalizing assisted suicide will remove treatment options from patients based on cost effectiveness, new report finds
(Lori Arnold, Christian Headlines)
Conscientious objection to military service: Mammadov
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Rights court exempts Jehovah’s Witnesses in Azerbaijan from military service
(Molly Quell, Courthouse News Service)
Lack of civilian service as an alternative to military service precluded recognition of conscientious objection, in breach of the Convention
(Press Release, European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg Consortium)
Ukraine's chief rabbi demands that perpetrators, organizers of anti-Semitic provocation in Kiev be brought to justice
(Interfax-Religion)
Catholic priest murdered in Kenya, latest in string of killings
(Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service)
Bombay HC strikes down legal sanctity of Goa’s ‘church courts’
(Gerard de Souza, Hindustan Times)
Exclusive jurisdiction of ecclesiastical tribunals in Goa declared unconstitutional
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Hong Kong Court rules same-sex marriage is not protected under their constitution
(Tim Zubizarreta, Jurist)
Hong Kong court: No protection for same-sex marriage or civil unions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Bishops worry divisions on ‘details’ at synod distract from big picture
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
National Association of Evangelicals names new president, diverse leadership
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
RNS morning report: Eliud Kipchoge’s Marathon; Methodist Clergyman Accused; Walt …
(Jonathan Woodward, Religion News Service)
Provincial governor’s spokesman says 62 killed, 36 wounded in mosque explosion in eastern Afghanistan
(Associated Press)
Afghanistan mosque bombing kills 62 worshippers
(BBC News)
Australia: Religious freedom and discrimination law
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Australia: Religious laws to be debated by Christmas
(Daniel McCulloch, News.com.au)
Australia to amend religious freedom bills to consider health facilities
(Michael Sainsbury, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Turkey-Syria ceasefire announced, attacks on Kurds continue
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Russia welcomes back Old Believers
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Working groups at the Vatican’s Amazon synod push for married clergy
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
China bans African students from worshiping in churches to prevent 'foreign infiltration'
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post)
Thursday, 17 October 2019
The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths
(Karen Taliaferro, Cambridge University Press)
A new defense of religious freedom drawing on Maimonides, Ibn Rushd, and Tertullian
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Highlighting Nigeria's abusive 'Islamic schools' challenge
(Daniel Mumbere, Africa News)
Another arrest of Jehovah's Witnesses for evangelism
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Invoking culture or religion to harm others can never be justified
(Pierre De Vos, Daily Maverick (South Africa))
Indonesian Islamists pursue mentally ill woman
(Amanda Hodge and Chandni Vasandani, The Australian)
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Honduran bishops denounce drug cartel incursion into politics
(David Agren, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nigerian bishop says ‘border wall’ would be good for Nigeria
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The Amazon Synod revives the myth of the noble savage
(Patrick Chisholm, Crisis Magazine - A Voice for the faithful Christian Laity)
Baby girl buried alive in India and sex trafficking in Dallas: The power (and hope) of ideas
(Jim Denison, Christian Headlines)
Meeting of Russian presidential advisors concerning religion
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
The OSCE produces guidance on freedom of religion or belief and security
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Albania gets religion: Resurgence of faith in the formerly communist country is raising fears of foreign influence.
(Krithika Varagur, Politico)
Uzbekistan: Muslim bloggers' sentences imminent?
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Traditional moral values, democracy can coexist - Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
Putin's advisors point out flaws in treatment of religion
(Natalia Bashlykova, Izvestiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Religious News worth reading, week ending Oct 12th 2019
(World Religion News)
Southeast Asia in the crosshairs of 'Islamic State'
(Rodion Ebbighausen, Deutsche Welle)
Tunisia: Conservative law professor wins presidential race
(Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press)
Catholic church urges Angola to declare a drought emergency
(Associated Press)
Ethiopian Prime Minister awarded Nobel Peace Prize, more work needed
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Boko Haram leader ends silence with vow to continue violence
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Authorities set to close two Algerian churches
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Saudi Arabia sees little progress on religious freedom despite claims of reform
(International Christian Concern)
Religious discrimination bill will not override laws to ban gay conversion therapy, Porter claims
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Coalition's religious discrimination bill condemned by state and territory commissions
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Meditation apps proliferate, even if what they provide is not enlightenment
(Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Religion News Service)
Synod appears to be moving toward ordination for married men in Amazon
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
American bishop says Amazon synod will enrich the church — and our lives
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
Sunnis support protests in Iraq, yet fear involvement
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
US announces full withdrawal from northern Syria as Turkish forces advance
(Amberin Zaman and Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Newman, the newest Catholic saint, is a model of making reason our path to God
(Grazie Poso Christie, Religion News Service)
BOOK LAUNCH, 15 October 2019: Religious Freedom in Australia – a new Terra Nullius?
(Iain T. Benson, Michael Quinlan and A. Keith Thompson, The Sdyney School of Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia)
Pakistan: The weaponization of blasphemy – analysis
(Tushar Ranjan Mohanty, South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP))
US policy changes leave Israel alone against Iran
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Gas trade: stand-alone win-win for US-Turkey relations
(Olgu Okumuş, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
U.N. nuncio praises nations for recognizing rights of indigenous peoples
(Catholic News Service)
Pope Francis appoints new head of Vatican security
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
China: Authorities forcibly demolish 'illegal' church; elderly congregants injured
(Leah MarieAnn Kleet, The Christian Post)
Monday, 14 October 2019
At Amazon synod, women insist that equality should mean the right to vote
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
(David A. Hollinger, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (June 11, 2019))
Rise in same-sex couples adopting as charity says they are more willing to care for 'harder to place' children
(Gabriella Swerling, The Telegraph)
Month old church demolished by Indian authorities
(Premier)
ICLRS International Law & Religion Symposium recordings of keynote and plenary sessions
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University)
Suppressing Jehovah’s Witnesses to prevent espionage”
(Li Mingxuan, Bitter Winter)
No god but God: a breathtaking exhibition bringing Islamic art out of the shadows
(ana Silkatcheva, The Conversation)
FoRB on the frontlines (Colombia): “We left the city and did not return”
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
FoRB on the frontlines (Venezuela): “A rival to the government”
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Queerness and religion in conversation
(Nadia Krige, University of Cape Town News)
Charter values are not Charter rights by another name
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities: Intersection)
Kurdish evangelicals: Amidst the current war, here's one angle the media isn't getting
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
New Syrian constitution must guarantee interests of all ethnic, religious groups - Putin
(Interfax-Religion)
Why ending the secrecy of ‘confession’ is so controversial for the Catholic Church
(Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation)
Tunisia polls suggest conservative professor wins election
(Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press)
John XXIII and the Amazon synod (The synod gathering in Rome is the latest fruit of the Good Pope's still-unfolding reform)
(Robert Mickens, La Croix International)
Religious discrimination: The Australian debate
(Peter Sherlock, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Australia: The biggest hurdle for the Coalition’s religious discrimination bill: how to define ‘religion’
(Erin Wilson, The Conversation)
Alma-Ata (Russia) police conduct searches at Jehovah's Witnesses office
(Interfax-Religion)
Turkey’s invasion has thrown a once-stable corner of Syria into chaos
(The Economist)
USCIRF raises alarm over reports that Houthi Court in Yemen may deport Baha’is
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Religious harmony prevails in the Kingdom of Cambodia
(Khuon Narim, Khmer Times)
Pope calls for peace in ‘beloved and martyred’ Syria after Turkish incursion
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Religious harmony: When spirituality trumps religious boundaries
(Hafeez Tunio, The Express Tribune (Pakistan))
Armed men attack Burkina Faso mosque, kill at least 16
(Arsene Kabore, Associated Press)
Abortion activists expand their ‘ideological colonization’ to Latin America
(Laura Nicole, LIve Action)
Abortion decriminalised in New South Wales
(The Christian Institute)
Preaching the American Gospel
(Glenn A. Moots, Law & Liberty)
I was a model Uighur. China took my family anyway.
(Nur Iman, Foreign Policy)
Sunday, 13 October 2019
Religions for Peace looks to its future
(Katherine Marshall, The Interfaith Observer)
Saturday, 12 October 2019
Egypt: friends fear family may have killed ex-teacher of Islam who became Christian
(World Watch Monitor)
Destroying a fragile peace, terrorists wreak havoc in West Africa
(Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post)
Mary Astell on female education and the sorrow of marriage (philosopher of the month)
(OUP Philosophy, OUPblog)
New data files now available at the ARDA
(The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA))
International Law and Religion Symposium 2019: Recordings (updating as available)
(The International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University)
The end of asylum: A pillar of the liberal order ia collapsing—but does anyone care?
(Nanjala Nyabola, Foreign Affairs)
The connection between online hate speech and real-world hate crime
(Matthew Williams, OUPblog)
Who are the Kurds, and why is Turkey attacking them?
(Siobhán O'Grady, The Washington Post)
Friday, 11 October 2019
Christian charity launches campaign to ‘end euthanasia’
(Tola Mbakwe, Premier)
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